If you’re married and you’re coming up to the point where you might be getting a divorce soon, it’s a great time to revisit your business documents. You need to understand what’s going on in those documents and how your divorce is going to affect it. How is the ownership going to change? Does you LLC agreement or corporate documents properly deal with the concept of divorce? Does it have a mechanism in place to make sure that the ex-spouse doesn’t become a part owner of the business or doesn’t take control of the business?
If not, you probably want to revisit that. You also want to start negotiations, separate from the divorce, on how the business is going to look after the divorce with your spouse and others involved in your business.
This may be a great time to reallocate property or to consolidate the ownership of the business in one of the spouses so that both ex-spouses don’t continue to own the business after divorce. As you can imagine it can be awkward from a business management standpoint having both ex-spouses involved.
You’ll also want to think about the long-term impacts on the business. Does one of the ex-spouses want to become a passive investor or do both want to have active management control?
If divorce is coming into your life for whatever reason, it’s a great time to go back and look at your business documents and make sure you’re prepared.
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